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It’s a book to be celebrated because it means we can throw away the dark glasses of deficit-based approaches and see children who come to school speaking a different home language for what they really are: \u003cstrong\u003elearners with tremendous assets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe authors’ contributions are arranged in nine chapters that become nine tenets for teachers and administrators to use as calls to actions in their own efforts to realize our English learners’ potential:\u003cbr\u003e  1.       From Deficit-Based to Asset-Based \u003cbr\u003e  2.       From Compliance to Excellence \u003cbr\u003e  3.       From Watering Down to Challenging \u003cbr\u003e  4.       From Isolation to Collaboration \u003cbr\u003e  5.       From Silence to Conversation \u003cbr\u003e  6.       From Language to Language, Literacy, and Content \u003cbr\u003e  7.       From Assessment of Learning to Assessment for and as Learning \u003cbr\u003e  8.       From Monolingualism to Multilingualism \u003cbr\u003e  9.       From Nobody Cares to Everyone\/Every Community Cares\u003c\/p\u003e  Read this book; the chapters speak to one another, a melodic echo of expertise, classroom vignettes, and steps to take. To shift the status quo is neither fast nor easy, but there is a clear process, and it’s laid out here in Breaking Down the Wall. To distill it into a single line would go something like this: if we can assume mutual ownership, if we can connect instruction to all children’s personal, social, cultural, and linguistic identities, then all students will achieve.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312613110133,"sku":"9781544342610","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781544342610_ea003085-34cc-462d-addb-f8c93fc7801f.jpg?v=1786023489"},{"product_id":"9781071932193","title":"A Leader's Guide to Collaboration and Co-Teaching for Multilingual Learners","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBuild collaborative leadership practices that transform outcomes for multilingual learners\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe landscape of education is shifting, and multilingual learners now make up a growing portion of classrooms nationwide. 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